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Having problems with your Samsung Digimax S630 Digital Camera ?

Card Locked! It is definitely NOT the lock tab. This is my sisters camera. She has used this card for a while. She took it out to try out a card I gave her and when she put the original back in the camera, it says "Card Locked!" whenever anything that would alter its contents is attempted. I have tested this card in my own camera and it works and I tried my card in her camera and that works. Why is this one card suddenly showing up to this one camera as locked?

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The best solution is to get all the data off of the card then remove the card ... its easier to just replace the card.....but you can try to fix it your self if u think u can simply take a pair of pliers and remove the tab make sure that the slot is bridged(or not bridged) to stop the lock....before you do that you are going to want to test other cards and see if its a problem with the camera

before you take the hammer out to the card also try cleaning the contacts "_"

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